Monday, April 05, 1999
Oak Hills High School sprouts new space
BY BERNIE MIXON
The Cincinnati Enquirer
GREEN TOWNSHIP — When students return to Oak Hills High School today, they will find the health, administrative and counseling offices in a new wing.
The library, formerly in cramped quarters, will be replaced with a media center.
The 49,000-square-foot addition is just one part of a $20.6 million renovation and addition project at the high school that educators hope will improve the educational envi ronment.
“With the changes taking place in the delivery of instruction, this district will move to the next level,” said Michael J. Amos, director of operations for the district.
When the project — now 75 percent complete — is finished in late July or early August, the building will have 94,000 square feet of new space. There will be enough space for classrooms, new computer areas and landscaping.
The health office will be in the new wing until renovations can be made to a storage room, formerly used by the library. The health room will then occupy that space.
When the project is complete:
• The main office will be renovated. Area formerly occupied by the assistant principals and counselors will be changed into classrooms. Former library space will be renovated to include one counseling office and three classrooms.
• The cafeteria area will be converted into two art rooms, a black box theater, a work shop for stage, and a radio/television production room. A new cafeteria will take its place.
• The auditorium will be air-conditioned, and electrical and plumbing renovations will be completed throughout the building.
Classrooms will have three to four computers that will be linked to a schoolwide network. In all, there will be seven computer rooms at the high school.
One of the biggest differences for students will be the ability to move around the building more freely.
“The space they will have to move about will make it more of a functional building,” Mr. Amos added.
Trish Pollick, school librarian, said the students will enjoy the space the new media library will provide.
“In the old library, everyone was falling over each other,” Mrs. Pollick said. “This is like a university library or a community library.
“The media center will lend itself to an academic feeling and a sense of this being a neat place to come.”
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